Monday, June 26, 2006

They Have Medicine For Worms Nowadays

BC Note: This site continues on people! I am hoping to continue posting about a query a week on here- enjoy!

Jasper the Jubilant has never felt less worthy of the name. His brother is dead, murdered before his very eyes. Now his brother’s orphans have come to live with him, and Jasper’s simple bachelor life has been turned upside down. When his landlady throws him out, Jasper has no one to turn to except Madi–a friend in the city guard whom Jasper secretly loves.

Meanwhile Madi’s got troubles of her own. Her feline familiar pulls a corpse from a river, and no one but Madi cares how it got there. She tries to throw herself into the case and keep her distance, but Jasper and his charges worm their way into her heart as well as her home. No one would ever call Madi a coward, but it takes a different kind of courage to risk her heart on a future with Jasper.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Not Like Harry Potter At All, Nope!

Riall was a student at the prestigious Jr. College for Sorcerous Studies until her teachers discovered she had an innate talent for the much more dangerous magic of wizardry, and sent her off to get extra training. When the recommended teacher, Master Wizard Volereem, throws her out of his house because he is leaving on a trip and has no time for apprentices. Riall, eager to return to school and determined to follow her orders precisely, follows him aboard his ship, and rather than send her home alone he finally agrees to teach her.

But learning Wizardry proved to be a deadly challenge indeed, especially as Volereem is on his way to the war-torn Valley of the Morning. When her teacher is treacherously killed, Riall becomes involved in both an attempt to bring the traitors to justice, and in the war itself, and she wonders if she will ever be able to return home.

As she finds decisions and responsibilities thrust upon her, she discovers that she can set her own course of action, and reevaluates her tendency to blindly follow instructions. She realizes that she has found worth, purpose, and honor here, and has no need to return and learn Sorcery.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

American Pie: The Final Chapter

BC Note: I would like to thank Matt for this one!

The "A.I.D.S Assassin" is where "Cruel Intentions" meets the world of A.I.D.S..

Matt Trobley, a well-to-do financial analyst, contracts the H.I.V. virus from his fiancee, Dana. Matt discovers that Dana has been cheating on him with his best friend Sebastian, who turns out to be the root of the virus. After discovering the illness, Matt sets out on a conquest to give the virus to six more people, one for every year him and Dana were together. Matt mails each of his victims a living black rose, symbolizing the juxtaposition of life and death. However, it becomes apparent that there is more to Dana's infidelity. In fact, unbeknownst to Matt, it is related to a pact that he made with Sebastian when they were in high school.

Although new to the scene, my hope is that, like Matt seeking to establish himself in a rather unusual way, you will feel a compulsion- not to help me spread any viruses, but to help me launch my career.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

I Have To Make More Promises Involving Dirt

They say, “Forgive and Forget”...but did they mean everything?

She doesn’t know where to turn. Or who to trust. In fact, she doesn’t know anything at all. Jade (...or is that really her name?) is in fear for her life. She’s been told she was in an accident that made her lose her memory--but can she believe Clint, the tortured ER doctor with the piercing blue eyes? Or was she born without a memory, a severe case of XWHY Chromosome disease, as the sexy redheaded neurologist Layla is suggesting? And if Jade was in an accident, why does no part of her body hurt--except her heart?

Now a lanky Texan cowboy appears by Jade’s bedside at Louisiana General Hospital (at least, she thinks it’s Louisiana General Hospital) with baby triplets in his arms, claiming they’re hers. But are they? Or could the triplets really belong to her half-sister, Prissie…who may not be her half-sister at all?

Only Emeril, the tall Cajun PI her father has hired (…or is that man really her father?) can help Jade find the answers. When her father asks her to honor the promise he made to her dead mother by eating dirt while engaging in sexual acts with four different men simultaneously, Jade is torn between family loyalty and her attraction to Emeril, the cowboy, the doctor, and the redheaded neurologist--none of whom are the four men her father has designated to help her fulfill the old vow.

Jade snaps. She flees from Louisiana General in nothing but a scanty lace hospital gown that doesn’t quite tie together properly in the back. Emeril shoves her in his pickup truck under some tools and fodder bags, and they hit the road while he curses in sexy bad French. But the cowboy and his triplets are hot on their heels, and so are Jade’s father and the four men he’s picked.

Emeril takes Jade to his wizened grandmother’s shack on a dark bayou, hoping voodoo might bring back Jade’s memory. His grandmother’s powers find the truth: Jade’s past hides a terrible wrong she must forgive.

But at that moment, her pursuers corner them in the swampy alligator-infested shack.
Jade’s downer past and her perky future are suddenly revealed in a raging climax of gunfire, bluesy Cajun rhythms, diapers, and sensuous bayou dirt.